Code Pink activists brought their babies, toddlers, and young children to Senate offices today to change the minds of 95 pro-Israel Senators. Led by Medea Benjamin, a group of parents and children pressed senators from Illinois and Michigan to approve cease-fire resolutions, which would effectively allow whatever is left of Hamas to remain in power and thereby ensure that “the next October 7 will only be a matter of time,” as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this weekend.
“We’re here today to speak for the Palestinian kids who aren’t being able to have a voice or be heard in this building,” one child said. “There’s no justification for killing kids. Kids in Palestine aren’t any different from me or any of the kids in this room. Would you kill me for being in the way?”
Like any good progressive women’s organization, Code Pink has also supported and hosted many pro-abortion initiatives and marches, described motherhood as “forced enslavement,” and supported abortion on demand and “without apology.” Code Pink has proudly supported the massacre of children and has waged war on women for decades by convincing them that the physical and emotional ramifications of abortion are moot — that abortion liberates a woman because children are inherently, they believe, in the way.
Innocent Palestinian children and parents in Gaza are in danger because Hamas terrorists forced them into a war they might not have asked for: All the more reason to free them from Hamas’s grip, lest another conflict ensue and more innocent lives are lost.
Parents who joined Code Pink today are hopefully well intentioned. They seemed so. And the appeal of Code Pink’s large activist network is enticing to any group that wants greater political sway. But isn’t it a little ridiculous to see Code Pink parade kids as political props after having for decades advocated for the dismemberment of babies in the womb and the “liberation” of parents from parenthood?
And as far as I heard, there was no mention of baby Kfir, an Israeli hostage held in Gaza, who just celebrated his first birthday in captivity.